Not upset with Jyotiraditya Scindia: Kamal Nath amid rift in Madhya Pradesh Congress
Bhopal/IBNS: Amid the growing rift within the Congress, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said he was not upset with party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia days after the latter had threatened to protest against the state government if it fails to fulfill the poll promises which were made to guest teachers.
"I never get upset at anybody. I was never upset even at Shivraj Singh Chouhan, then why should I be at Scindia," said Nath as quoted by NDTV.
Scindia, who led the Congress to power in Madhya Pradesh in 2018, has recently expressed solidarity with the protesting guest teachers and said, "Your demands were included in our manifesto which is sacred to us. If the promises are not met, I will hit the streets with you."
Hitting back at the Congress leader, Chief Minister Nath said, "To utar jae (let him do that)."
Defending his statement, Scindia had said, "People know me that I stand by our manifesto. The Congress government will have to stand by the promises. If they are not met, I will have to hit the streets."
Scindia, a former Lok Sabha MP from Madhya Pradesh's Guna, had earlier criticised the Nath government over crop loss survey and farm loan waiver.
Earlier on Jan 4, Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot had hit out at his own Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over citation of data as a counter-argument to the deaths of hundreds of children at a state-run hospital.
Gehlot, who runs the Congress government in Rajasthan, had sparked a controversy by pointing out that the deaths of children in the state declined in comparison to the previous year even as more than 100 infants died at Kota hospital.
Hitting out at the Chief Minister, Pilot had said, "We should have been more compassionate. We should not point out fingers at the previous government as we are voted to power."
"Getting into data over deaths of children is not acceptable. Someone must be held accountable," the Deputy Chief Minister of the Congress government had said.
The Congress' infighting is not just restricted to Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Several Congress leaders in Delhi are also openly attacking their colleagues.
After the Congress was decimated in Delhi polls, leader Sharmistha Mukherjee and Ajay Maken have slammed P Chidambaram and Milind Deora respectively for praising the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its landslide victory in the national capital.
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